I saw this as the show playing with the expectations of Breaking Bad fans. Years later, Mike will be tasked with tracking down Jesse Pinkman during the Half Measures / Full Measures arc. Mike stomps all over town trying to find out where Jesse went off to, even going so far as to threaten Saul for the information.

Well, in the final scene, presumably taking place several days or weeks later, Eggsy is still in the Kingsman Suit (TM) as he approaches his mother's abusive boyfriend et all in the pub. There's no plot reason for this — he actually looks out of place wearing that suit in the pub.

But then how come Luke was able to assemble a perfect lightsaber after what appears to be 2 days of Jedi training?

But at the same time, Eggsy officially becomes a gentleman not by becoming a better version of himself, but by donning a Seville Row suit and glasses. Thus conforming to the expectations of all the snobby rich kids who looked down on him, and in a way validating those expectations.

It has to do with narrative — if it had been Bush's head exploding a few years back, it would be yet another example of liberal Hollywood's ceaseless traitorous campaign against the president. When it's a Democrat getting his head blown off then all of a sudden they see it as the harmless apolitical joke in a silly…

Carrell is already 52, the same age as Stewart. I have to assume they'd prefer to hire someone who can keep the audience young and host the show for another 15 years.

Yeah, I definitely sympathize with that interpretation of the show. I think Hannah's worst qualities are a very self-conscious exaggeration of Dunham's worst qualities, presented in a way to make fun of herself. So on one level she's not really asking us to identify with or root for Hannah, so much as asking us to…

Most people with an MFA don't know what it actually means either. I mean, an author like Stephanie Meyer would get absolutely torn apart in an MFA workshop, but she's sold 100 million books. And a real writers' writer is lucky to sell 5,000 copies of their tightly wound novel. Hannah has always seemed like a poor…

I think this is a case where what might be realistic for the characters simply doesn't make for compelling drama. Sometimes lost 23-year-olds continue making the same mistakes over and over again until they're lost 30-year-olds, which would bring us past this series' likely endgame. But the problem is, what's the…

But here's the problem — as is made very apparent in the second half of the film, the U.S. military has absolutely no weapons that can harm Superman, and they cannot build a prison that can hold him.

I thought it was very realistic for Hannah to react the way she did in the workshop, being all defensive and cooking up delusional motivations for why the other writers in the class didn't worship her work.

My advice is to avoid thinking about this issue more than the writers have. They don't seem to want to commit to grounding the action in the late 90's / early 00's to allow for Batman arriving in the present day, but if the Waynes got shot in 2014 then that means Batman should be debuting in some kind of…

Yeah, Affleck isn't getting any younger — they'll try to make a solo Batfleck movie within two or three years of BvS. They didn't put it on the list so they can make a "surprise" announcement about it around the time BvS comes out.

I'd say the title is more thematically dubious, as pretty much the only "dark" element of the story is undone in five minutes by magic blood.

That's a really good point. For most of its run, The Walking Dead has had the opposite situation of Game of Thrones. The latter show is furiously tearing through its source material, and very soon the showrunners will have to "Hobbit-ize" the show by making a prequel season, slowing down the pace, dramatizing minor…

I'm not watching any more episodes until Batman shows up.

Would Congress really need to pass a Superhero Registration Act in the MCU, when there are only like 6 known superhumans? Including a guy whose superpower is being really good at archery? And a girl whose superpower is hiding her Russian accent? And another guy whose superpower is building a robot suit?

Didn't Audrey get blown up in the bank in the last episode? It will be funny to see how they address hanging plot threads like that, because the only cliffhanger anyone is going to remember is "what happened to Cooper?"

I wonder how they're going to handle Frank Silva's death. You can wave away Major Briggs or Pete as having passed away from natural causes during the past 25 years. But it's harder to explain the absence of an apparently immortal spirit. Basically, their options are to recast and just not mention it, or find a…

I think in the Bob/Maddy episode, Bob's movements are deliberately a little out of sync with Leland's, in order to make the audience feel more unsettled. It also raises an interesting metaphysical question that's left vague — when Bob is in possession of Leland, does anyone else see Bob? Plenty of other characters…